2008 in words & pictures: April

APRIL

Rogers and Bell slow down online connections. It's not the same as China blocking YouTube and the BBC, right? Be afraid. Be very afraid.

TTC's CanCon job

TTC refuses to boost the made-in-Canada quotient on 204 new light rail vehicles to 25 per cent. The manufacturing jobs that move would have created look really good right about now.

Strip it good

Lights are going out on the Lakeshore motel strip, a vestige of postwar car culture and art deco chic and favourite stop of road-trippers looking for clean, sandy beaches. Crazy to think as the shadow of unstoppable development looms.

Ticketmaster tick-off

Radiohead tix sell out in five minutes on Ticketmaster website and, presto, are resold at 10 times face value ($695 or more each) on the website of Ticketmaster partner Tickets Now. But this ain't no rip-off. It's what the market will bear.

Fine young animals

Corporal Jeffrey Hall and Private Brian Deganis, reservists with the revered Queen's Own Rifles, reverse themselves and plead guilty to manslaughter in the death of homeless man Paul Croutch. Fine young warriors we're priming for Afghan duty, huh?